Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Temporary Job. In Pittsburgh, Nightclub Doorman Herbert Gibbs began a year's jail sentence for taking over a patron's car on his first day on the job, not parking it until he reached the outskirts of Cleveland...
After his death, his energetic spinster daughter Helen became an art patron in her own right. Under her father's will, the Frick home was turned into a public gallery. Next door, she established the Frick Art Reference Library, now one of the largest collections of art photographs, pamphlets and books in the world...
Gian-Carlo Menotti had good reason for counting every patron. For production in the close academic air of Columbia University, he had composed a compact little two-act opera called The Medium, and it had gone on Broadway. It was a grim and eerie story of an old faker who finally, at one of her seances, feels the touch of one of the spirits she has pretended to reach for so many years, and consequently goes mad. It was hardly a cheery subject; moreover, it was all 'opera. Every line and word was sung, and its music yielded nothing...
...life as a combination assistant and disciple was no bed of roses, and his memoir of his patron is, perhaps unwittingly, a murderous indictment of a spoiled and kittenish aesthete. Gathorne-Hardy was allowed plenty of free time, but Smith often made his life miserable with his whims and pouts, especially during his intermittent bouts of melancholia, which he called his "interlunaries." And his penchant for repeating anecdotes would drive Gathorne-Hardy to otherwise unmotivated trips to the washroom...
Rimbaud . . . did not only start fastidious saints like Paul Claudel upon their spiritual career, but is himself something of a patron saint of the significant modern poetry in all countries. If such a world-shaking record deserves nothing better than a sewer simile, one cannot help preferring the sewer to the sterilized Olympus which inspired your unneurotic and un-debauched literary standard in the present case...